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FutureCast: Michael Chorost on World Wide Mind (Nov 4, 11am PT)
Join Lyn Jeffery in conversation with Michael Chorost, discussing—among other things—his second book, World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humans and Machines (coming in February 2011 from Free Press / Simon & Schuster).
Dr. Michael Chorost was born with severe hearing loss due to an epidemic of rubella. He didn’t learn to talk until he got hearing aids at age 3½. Those enabled him to grow up speaking English more or less normally, and he got a B.A. in English from Brown and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation was on how online environments are transforming classroom teaching, and as a basis for his research he created an online “collaboratory” in ColdFusion and used it in his English classes for four years. In 1998, this application won First Prize in the university’s annual contest for innovative educational software. After moving to California in 1999 to work for a dot-com, and then SRI International, he lost the remaining hearing in his one usable ear on July 7, 2001, and got a cochlear implant shortly thereafter. This experience was chronicled in his book, Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human (Houghton Mifflin, 2005).
This conversation will take place on Thursday, November 4, 2010, 11am - noon PT, and will be recorded as a podcast, available afterwards on the FutureCast blog.
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November 4, 2010, 11am - noon PT
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The FutureCast series is a way to track some of IFTF's research-in-progress and join the behind-the-scenes conversations that help shape our forecasts in global trends, technology, innovation, health, and sustainability. These open conversations will be recorded and made available as podcasts on The Future Now blog.